Ikea ladda ready to use

I wonder if it might be worth shipping a pack to HKJ for testing? We could see the discharge graphs overlaid with the eneloop ones and know exactly how they compare?

I’ll keep an eye out for them next time I am in an IKEA.

That would not be nesessary, HKJ can buy them in our local Ikea here in Denmark for DKr 39. That is about 7$ For a pack.

Thank you for the information. I’m not a member of “de consumentenbond” myself and had to rely on information I could find on other websites about it. They claimed ikea tested best, but that’s probably because of their lower price. Comparing the XX isn’t a fair comparison either.

nkon It’s a dutch seller but he does ship abroad as far as I know.
Price does not include shipping so it might not be cheaper with shipping.

Yes.
IKEA carries several types of batteries nowadays. The yellow/yellow+silver ALKALISK line are none rechargables. The green+silver LADDA are. But watch out when buying. They used to have normal rechargables also called LADDA. I can’t find them on the website anymore so don’t know if they are only carrying the Ready-To-Use now, but double check to make sure!
The normal LADDA used to be full green, but as the ALKALISK used to be full yellow also and are now yellow silver I’m not sure if you can only tell the difference by looking at the color.

“LADDA” is a trade name, but it also means “charge” in Swedish.

Yes.
IKEA carries several types of batteries nowadays. The yellow/yellow+silver ALKALISK line are none rechargables. The green+silver LADDA are. But watch out when buying. They used to have normal rechargables also called LADDA. I can’t find them on the website anymore so don’t know if they are only carrying the Ready-To-Use now, but double check to make sure!
The normal LADDA used to be full green, but as the ALKALISK used to be full yellow also and are now yellow silver I’m not sure if you can only tell the difference by looking at the color.
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I’m at IKEA often, for lunch! I have seen the YELLOW batteries but I don’t ever recall seeing rechargeables. I will look closer on my next trip. The poster mentioned $5.50? And someone said they are excellent in quality? I’ll have to pick some up.

thanks!

Hi, I wanted to do some testing on them but I don’t have much time by now…

Over here they are 4€, which comes to around 5.5$
Sixt545 says they are 7$ in Denmark. So price will depend on your country.

According to the US ikea page they are 4.99
Products - IKEA AA
Products - IKEA AAA

I bought a set to try. I am doing break in cycles now, they are showing between 2200-2250 at 350ma discharge current, I think this is the second discharge cycle.
So the capacity seems pretty good, I don’t know yet the LSD capabilities, nor the high current delivery behavior.
I’d like to see a proper test with several discharge currents and graphs coming from some Danish battery guru :slight_smile:

Like I said the discharge capacity isn’t the point of eneloops it is the high voltage…so you need to check the voltage while discharging…

I suppose you mean the current they are able to deliver (which causes a voltage sag when the required current is higher than the current the batt can deliver)
Anyway I didn’t buy them trying to compare them to eneloops, I have 24 eneloops for the most current hungry devices, and my plan with these ikea sets is to use them in my toddler’s toys, remotes, keyboard and mouse….if they can mantain a 70% or more charge for more than 6 months, they are perfect for my intended use

Today I came very close by an IKEA so decided to pick up a pack.
Bought a set of AA’s and AAA’s
The AAA’s production date is 2013-10-10
The AA’s production date is 2013-07-02

They are white top batteries, so maybe they are rebranded eneloops?
I don’t know how to tell or how to be sure.

I’m going to do an initial discharge to see how much juice they have left.

Will post the results when ready.

I also saw they only carried the ready to use type. So I assume this is the same for every IKEA store.

edit: I see they are made in china, and from what I have found this means they are not rebranded eneloop. Don’t know if this is correct but it’s likely they are not.

These are not eneloops, it are just generic Chinese LSD nimh.

I found a German test, they used this standard charger with the 4 displays, to charge and discharge a bunch of batteries 100 times.
The laddas had still the same capacity, so they are kind of reliable.
But they did not monitor the discharge voltage, so there is no real comparison to other batts possible.

I just editted my post. They are made in china. Your message confirms what I had found that these are not rebranded eneloop.

I own an accucel 6 and a maha c9000 so I can do some testing but not as extensive as HKJ can. I also don’t know if 1A is high enough to fully test them to compare.

The standard 1A discharge should be enough for a test.
I have done this quite often when I bought a dozen of cheap LSD. But I also did not capture the voltage because I was to lazy. That’s a dumb mistake I wouldn’t do again.
I would really like a hobbycharger with sd card instead of serial connection. That would make things easier.

So all I have is the feeling how fast the voltage drops and on the cheap aldi/lidl cells I see that clearly. If they are a year old and have 30cycles even worse.
Not sure how these laddas behave, but the ikea products are not bad. They also have some promising led bulbs for reasonable prices. And funny that this is probably the only store which exists everywhere…


If you consider all the prevented waste if you can replace hundreds of AAs with one AA I am always happy that there are cheaper options out there, because this gives a kind of buying impulse to a lot of people who would never buy eneloops.

Okay.

I will do initial capacity tests on my maha. 200mAh discharge for the AAA (running now) and 500mAh for the AA.
After that I will do a break in to charge them.

I have no output cable to connect my accucel with a computer, but I will look for timelape software and let it capture a picture every 5 minutes. I think this will provide enough data about the voltage drop.
Although my accucel isn’t 100% accurate, it’s better than nothing.

And indeed. My intention with these batteries are as an alkaline replacement.
If they can keep up enough of their charge for 6 months to a year they are a good enough replacement for me for simple electronic devices. They will not have to power my digital camera or something :slight_smile:

Initial AAA discharge results:

1: 602 mAh
2: 609 mAh
3: 608 mAh
4: 596 mAh

I accidently discharged #4 @500mA instead of 200mA like the rest.

AA results will follow when done.

I stopped making cycles. The aa ended up with a total of 2300 mah, mesured at a discharge of .5 and .7A (max of my charger)
Willing to see full tests from HKJ on these

Have you contacted him and asked if he queue them up?

Not bad for 2000mAh rated batteries!

I guess the 2300 are the charging capacities not discharging….
Totilde which tools did you use?

I have an old AAA nimh in which my hobbycharger charged 2050mAh……….discharge capacity is near to zero.